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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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Love Is Strong as Death
- Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly
- By: Paul Kelly
- Narrated by: Paul Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music....
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A Moveable Feast
- By Anonymous User on 25-11-2019
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Poetry of the Romantics
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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Love Is Strong as Death
- Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly
- By: Paul Kelly
- Narrated by: Paul Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Moveable Feast
- By Anonymous User on 25-11-2019
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Poetry of the Romantics
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: Joan Allen, Stephen Fry, Julie Christie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year
- By: Allie Esiri
- Narrated by: Helena Bonham Carter, Simon Russell Beale, Damian Lynch, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year....
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The Poetry Pharmacy
- Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
- By: William Sieghart
- Narrated by: William Sieghart
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for all, a space for reflection and that precious realisation - I'm not the only one who feels like this....
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fantastic
- By Anonymous User on 22-12-2021
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Book of Longing
- By: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Leonard Cohen
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago
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The Classic Hundred Poems
- By: William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Alfred Corn, Rita Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- Booktrack Edition
- By: various, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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thoroughly enjoyed it. judi dench andcast were fa
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-2016
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A masterly new recording by Ralph Fiennes. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T. S. Eliot's career as a poet....
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Ralph Fiennes does a magnificent job
- By Paula Constant on 12-10-2020
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
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Poems to Live Your Life By
- By: Chris Riddell
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between....
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Appreciation for poetry
- By Margaret E Marsh on 30-12-2019
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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Where are the female poets?
- By Eleni Rivers on 16-06-2019
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100 Greatest Poems: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire
- By: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh, Paul Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The greatest poems from the greatest masters of French literature have been put together in a brilliant English adaptation in the form of an audiobook...
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The Poetry of the Romantics
- By: John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and others
- Narrated by: Bill Pullman, Blair Underwood, Burt Reynolds, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the quintessence of romance that spans not only the ages but the full range of passionate expression of love in all of its forms and stages. Authors include John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron, William Wordsworth....
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse
- By: William Shakespeare, John Milton, more
- Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range...
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
- By: Allie Esiri
- Narrated by: Allie Esiri, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Samuel West
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining poem for each and every day of the year....
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- By: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and others
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence....
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Great poems but many untitled
- By Anonymous User on 19-07-2019
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Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age
- By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Crabbe, John Keats, and others
- Narrated by: John Moffatt, Samuel West, Sarah Woodward
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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Catching Life by the Throat
- How to Read Poetry and Why
- By: Josephine Hart
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Moore, Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library....
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Discovery
- By ej on 18-04-2019
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
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Poems Every Catholic Should Know
- By: Joseph Pearce
- Narrated by: Kevin O'Brien
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity. The selections are arranged chronologically to serve also as a history of verse....
